Other of their fantastic creations was based on the wind turbine with a lot of reinforcement parts. This time, the Scratch code uses the microphone to measure the wind speed that controls the motor that moves the turbine. They also have the Scratch code available!

In addition to these designs, they have a huge amount of instructions for other WeDo, LEGO and Mindstorms designs with Arduino, makey makey, Picoboard, Raspberry electronics and a lot of software explanations, perfect for science projects! I bet a lot of pupils dream to be programmers or engineers with this background!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Thanks to Giannis Arvanitakis from Greece for sharing the building instructions of an M&M candy machine. Giannis is a computer science teacher in a experimental elementary school, so he uses his design with Scratch for computer games (the winner gets a candy!).

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Today we have a few designs to share courtesy of Shanti Rao. There is enough material for everybody: the artist, the mechanic, the musician, the builder. There is even a haunted house and a Easter egg decoration machine!

This program can be written in Scratch as the figure shown below. Yet again, the more complicated part is finding the sounds you like. For this, you need to import them from the Scratch sound libraries (Sounds tab on the programming area) or to record one for your beloved soccer team.

If we are capable of programming robots for a soccer game, including cheerful fans and multi colored bricks, I think we are capable of bigger things. But first, we need to finish the first robotic soccer game.